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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marli" data-source="post: 5344803" data-attributes="member: 86402">using the old 2/3E rule of thumb about each level is 50% rarer then the one below and the magic item rarity means that although a magic shop owner might buy an item at 2000 gold and sell it at 10'000 gold that would happen so rarely that a few factor com into effect.1) does he have that much cash, he will have to borrow from all and sunder(some at rip off rates) to buy your item.2) he may sell it to adventurers at 10K but to get his money back to pay the interest he will most likely sell it to a bigger trader maybe at 5K or 7K. (who has to ship it to somewhere there is enough rich buyers..via more traders) by the time it returns adventurers the profits have been well dispirsed.3)after he pays the average 1-2K in interest he racks up trying to find a buyer he isnt exactly super rich. the chance of an item of that value coming through his village again is near to none..as an example.in medieval time about 2-5% of people lived in urban areas.vilages were about 200-400 people.in a kingdom off 100K there would be 300-350 vilages.(0.33%)about 3000 level 5 characters exist in this kingom (3%)the chance that a level 5 character entering your village today is about 1% IF EVERBODY traveled EVERYDAY.and does he have anything to sell? will you make a profit on it anyway?you wont see an item sold by a 5th level character for 5 years!so i think 4E economics are not that far out.</blockquote>

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